Calvin Demarest Captures 18.2 Balk Line Billiards Title
Calvin Demarest defeats former champion George Sutton in New York to win the 18.2 balk line billiards championship by 500 to 78. Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry visit England. John G. Leishman arrives as American ambassador to Italy in Rome.
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Calvin Demarest
George Sutton
New York
Wilhelmina of Holland
Prince Henry
England
John G. Leishman
Italy
Rome
Commerce report targets cotton market and cyclone damage
The commissioner's report condemns futures as conducted on cotton exchanges while not condemning the exchange system. A Terre Haute cyclone wrecked buildings in the business district, injuring one seriously and damaging property over 20 000 dollars.
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Commissioner of Corporations
Herbert Knox Smith
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Sgmith
Terre Haute
Ind
Cherry Mine
St. Paul Coal Company
Frank Buck
Fred
Mat Francisco
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
New York
Taft
American Red Cross
Washington
Italy
Key West
Lake Michigan
Pacific
Zelaya
Nicaragua
United States
State Department
Grace and Cannon
Equitable Life Assurance Society
J. Pierpont Morgan
Equitable
House of Lords
Rock Island
Frisco
Daniel Ayres Goodsell
Epis‘copal
New York City
War seizes union strike as guard, grim violence unfold
A mass of reports recount strife and bloodshed across states. Ohio National Guard deployed to Bridgeport to quell a strike at Aetna- Standard plant after a gun battle with 700 workers, injuring several. Other scenes note murders, mob attacks, library loot, and legal cases across Illinois, New York, and beyond.
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Warren
University of Chii
Maud Radford Wari
Chicago
Amrine
Belmont County
Harmon
Seventh
Ohio National Guard
Bridgeport
Aetna- Standard
Hawans
Williamson County
Illinois
Luther Williams
Scottsboro
Black Hand Society
John R. Bradley
Frederick A. Cook
Newfoundland
Bonne Bay
Shamokin
Phenix Insurance Co under investigation for multimillion surplus impairment
New York City reports that the Phenix Insurance Co of Brooklyn faces scrutiny by Supt. Hotchkiss and the district attorney over alleged overdrawn salary and use of company assets for personal speculative gains. President George P. Sheldon linked to questionable securities and wash sales, with 22 years since last exam noted.
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New York City
Phenix. Insurance Co
Brooklyn
Hotchkiss
State Insurance Department
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Smelr
Phenix
Insurance Department
Sheldon
Thee Phenix
Phenix Insurance Co
George P. Sheldon
New Ambassador to China Named from Chicago
William J. Calhoun of Chicago named by the state department as minister to China. He accepted the post, with the Chinese government expressing pleasure. Calhoun, a corporation lawyer who began practice in Danville Illinois in 1875, has done notable diplomatic work including Cuban conditions before the Spanish American War and Venezuela asphalt-company disputes investigated for Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt.
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Athol
Mass
Toledo
Ohio
Grace Frosch
Evans
Orrville
Cou Courier
New York City
Brooklyn
Hinman Knowlton
South Framingham
Patrick Cox
Chicago
County Mayo
Ireland
Edward Murray
Teachers’ College of Columbia University
Helen Hartley Jenkins
Lewis Merickel
Joseph Myers
Merickel
John Masterson Burke
America
Omaha
Neb
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Thomas F. Ryan
James H. Hyde
Nicaragua
Prairie
Philadelphia
Albany
Yorktown
Central American
Republic
Albert I.patrick
Rice
Minnie Sprong
Freano
Cal
Ruth
Frank—D.holland
Holland
Church
National Society For the Promotion of Industrial Education Métro
Milwaukee
Washington, D. C
State Department
William J. Calhoun
China
Calhoun
Sabia
Danville
McKinley
Cuba
Castro
Venezuela
Roosevelt
Nation's Appropriations Cut Down in Fiscal Year
Washington reports the estimated total appropriations for the coming fiscal year amount to 732,223,075 dollars. This compares with 835,593,378 dollars appropriated for the current year as presented to Congress by the departments through the secretary of the treasury.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Morse's Plea Denied by Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court denied Charles W Morse's petition for certiorari. The decision leaves in place Morse's 15 year prison sentence in the Red will case.
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Washington, D. C
J Supreme ‘Court of the
Slayer Dies In Electric Chair At Sing Sing
Bedros Ham partzoomian an Armenian slayer of H Tavshanjian and a wealthy rug merchant was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison in New York City.
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New York City
Bedros Hampartzoomian
State funds under probe as Harmon orders suits
Gov. Harmon orders immediate court action to recover millions said to be diverted from public funds before and after the state depository law. Attorney General Denman will sue bondsmen of former officials, with focus on the treasurer and other departments amid a broad audit of the tax, fire, railroad, and secretary of state offices.
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Columbus
Gov. Harmon
Denman
Office of
State Auditor
Gov
Hy D._ Davis
Cleveland
Secretary of State
L. ¢. Laylin
Norwalk
J--G._Morris
Youngstown
Harmon
W. S. McKinnon
Treasury
Creamer
Ohio wheat rated high in state crop report
Ohio’s November weather lifts wheat to a high rating of 93 percent of a full average crop. The report notes early sales for 1909, with 43 percent of the crop already sold after threshing. Corn production for 1909 is listed at 121,127,532 bushels.
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Columbus
Ohio
Agricultural Department
Old Paper Changes Hands In Norwalk
The Reflector Publishing Co. in Norwalk is organized to take over the Reflector Co. from Wickham heirs after receivership for nearly two years. An order of sale completes the transfer, ending a 79 year association with the Wickham family.
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Norwalk
Reflector Publishing Co
Reflector Co
Wickham
Murderer Saved from Death Chair in Ohio Plea
In Elyria Ohio Roy Hines age 22 pleaded guilty to second degree murder for killing his girlfriend Clara Elliott near Wellington about two months ago. The common pleas court allowed the plea after the defendant confessed to a death by own action pact and sentenced him to life in the penitentiary.
Man of Seventy Takes Gride
Mrs Allie Wilson sister of Mrs C W Kemp el wife of State Representative Kemp el married Prof Stillman W Robinson former Ohio State University professor in New York ceremony Mrs Wilson has lived in Akron for years and is 569 years old while Robinson is 70 they were neighbors in Columbus in youth, bride's daughter attended.
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Akron
New York
Allie Wilson
C. W. Kempel
Kempel
Stillman W.robinson
Ohio State University
Backache Is Kidneyache Remedy Claim
Thompson Watkins a Parsons nurse endorses Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney congestion claiming relief after use. Ad notes 50 cents a box and Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y as maker. The closing line is a cartoon joke about a salary.
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Thompson Watkins
St. Parsons
Kan
Dean
Dean’s
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Million Posters Battle Tuberculosis Crusade General Call
Artists, billposters, printers, paper makers and tuberculosis fighters unite under a National Association drive to paste up to a million posters. Free billboard space and poster printing are donated, with several hundred paper makers providing material worth thousands. Posters measure 9 by 7 feet in multiple colors and aim at high visibility nationwide.
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National—Association
Fei
Associated Billposters and Distributors of America
Poster Printers Association
United States
Wanted More
A short humorous anecdote describes Francis at age 214 who promises not to swallow grape seeds. He carefully eats the grapes, hands the empty stalk to his father, and asks to have the store re-supply the grapes for him.
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Francis
No Waves Like Father and Son Beach Remark
A humorous exchange recounted in the Columbia Jester features Wilford sitting with his father as his mother styles her hair. The father jokes about Marcel waves, Wilford retorts that there are no waves because it is all beach.
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Wilford
Columbia Jester
No Hobnobbing in Royal Circles
A witty line from Smart Set contrasts Mrs Askit and Mrs Nonaught over propriety abroad. It questions whether socializing with royalty is acceptable, concluding that behavior remains strictly proper.
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Askit
Health Through Right Feeding: Grape-Nuts Endorsed
An educator from Boston credits improved health and brain function to a diet including Grape-Nuts. She describes quitting teaching due to nervous exhaustion, then experiencing rest and better digestion, with eggs, hot milk, and Grape-Nuts aiding bowel regularity and vitality. She promotes the book The Road to Wellville and a pamphlet titled There are Reasons.
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Boston
Wellvile
Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla and Whiskey Remedy for Aged Health
An old health warning claims after age forty the body declines with poisons in blood causing joint and muscle pains. It promotes a home remedy using one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla one ounce Toris compound and half pint whiskey mixed and taken in tablespoonful doses before meals and at night, with a note that druggists can supply the ingredients.
Night watchman demanded to guard with vigilance
Employer calls for a night watchman who can sleep with one eye open and both ears awake and who is not afraid to tackle anything. Applicant replies with a joking plan to send his wife around.
Remedy for severe child rash using Cuticura products
A Yukon Oklahoma mother describes a two year old son healed after weeks of itching and extensive blisters. She reports immediate relief after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with no recurrence for over two years. Oklahoma August 28 and September 17, 1908. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Boston.
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J. W. Lauck
Yukon
Okla
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Astonished the Company at Dinner Grace Remark
A famous dean at dinner, hearing talk of mortality among lawyers, rose when told of six eminent barristers lost in months and offered grace, saying for this and every mercy, make us truly thankful.
Sentiments for Husbands from a Wife’s Perspective
A passage urges husbands to merge their best sentiments for other women into one overarching devotion to their wife. It argues respect for mothers, politeness toward other women, and responsibility to sisters all blend into the great love owed to a wife.
Fine Tonic Mixture Prep Concept From Historical Text
A historic recipe describes a tonic and stimulant made from one half pint whiskey, one ounce balmwort compound, and one ounce sarsaparilla syrup. It suggests one tablespoon before meals as an appetizer and after meals at bedtime as a tonic. A druggist can mix it quickly.
London Archery Tournament Draws 300 Women
A London archery event attracted 300 women as the sport grows popular and is praised by physicians for nerves. American women have shown less enthusiasm, but renewed interest abroad could boost uptake at home.
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London
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Highlights Reward and Endorsements
One hundred dollars reward offered for incurable catarrh by Hema Qatarrh Cure. Endorsements from F J Cheney Co Toledo and Walding Kinnan Marvin. Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as internal remedy. price per bottle. sold by druggists. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Tetedo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Manvin
Wholesale Druggista
Toledo
O. Hall
Hall
Milton Quote on Fugitive Virtue and Courage
A compact quotation from Milton condemns unexercised virtue and the tendency to avoid confrontation. It contrasts cloistered values with bold action against an adversary. The line reflects on moral courage and public virtue.
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Milton
One Thing That Will Live Forever Pettit's Eye Salve
Howard Bros Buffalo NY drugsellers report first box sold in 1807 and sales rising yearly. Pierce's Peasant Pellets and Sudar-core offered for regimens and invigoration with small granules. Consumers urged to treat as candy though advise costly versus cheap fixes.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
Pierce
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Hotchkiss of Empire
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Mr. Shrimp
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